Journal
FEMS MICROBIOLOGY REVIEWS
Volume 33, Issue 1, Pages 191-205Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6976.2008.00149.x
Keywords
phenotyping; phenomics; metabolomics; phenotypic analysis; cell phenotypes; phenotypic characterization
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- NIH
- NIGMS [GM62107]
- NIAID [AI57232]
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The measure of the quality of a systems biology model is how well it can reproduce and predict the behaviors of a biological system such as a microbial cell. In recent years, these models have been built up in layers, and each layer has been growing in sophistication and accuracy in parallel with a global data set to challenge and validate the models in predicting the content or activities of genes (genomics), proteins (proteomics), metabolites (metabolomics), and ultimately cell phenotypes (phenomics). This review focuses on the latter, the phenotypes of microbial cells. The development of Phenotype MicroArrays, which attempt to give a global view of cellular phenotypes, is described. In addition to their use in fleshing out and validating systems biology models, there are many other uses of this global phenotyping technology in basic and applied microbiology research, which are also described.
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